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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Danny Baum?
2. In Chapter 27, McCall has graduated from college and is looking for a job but he has two strikes against him, one being what?
3. After St. Brides, McCall notes that he understands why so many return to prison so quickly after freedom because jail provides jail, housing, and ___ for inmates.
4. In Chapter 39, McCall describes his participation in a minorities and workplace racism fellowship which was held at which university?
5. After McCall meets up with his biological father again in Chapter 30, McCall's father tells him to call when he wants to do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does McCall proceed with the advice he got from Milton regarding his prison record during the Washington Post interview?
2. Later, in Chapter 34, McCall pressures Debbie to abort their second child but why is McCall glad the abortion did not happen?
3. How does McCall's relationship with his son, Monroe, compare to McCall's relationship with his biological father as described in Chapter 30?
4. Why is McCall now afraid of the people with whom he was once so comfortable?
5. What does McCall like about Islam according to Chapter 26?
6. What happens with the divorce from Debbie in Chapter 41?
7. Why do friends and family have to help McCall when he goes to visit his kids in Atlanta, in Chapter 42?
8. What does McCall fear about his kids from Debbie and what does he do about it, according to Chapter 34?
9. Why does McCall feel like a slave on an auction block in Chapter 27?
10. Why doesn't McCall trust anyone at the Virginia Pilot-Ledger Star where he works?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Part III of the book, McCall describes his relationship with Yvette, her challenges with being inferior and the Muslim principle that women hold an inferior position in the home. Looking at McCall's upbringing, his relationship with his mother and his mother's role in McCall's home, how do the two outlooks, situations, etc. clash? Why does McCall have problems with this Muslim principle and how much of this is due to his upbringing and his mother's role in the home?
Essay Topic 2
McCall runs away from home and returns in Part I of the book. Why does McCall run away, why does he return, and why does McCall refer to the whipping he gets from his stepfather upon his return home saving "face?"
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 14, McCall shoots a man who had once raped and is now harassing Elisabeth. How does the system handle McCall and this crime and how does this compare to how something like this might be handled in today's system with a shooter like McCall and a man like Plaz? Consider the type of threat to Elisabeth as an influencing factor as well.
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